The Pareto dominance relation is shown to be the unique nontrivial partial order on the set of finite-dimensional real vectors satisfying a number of intuitive properties.

There is a glaring paradox in all commonly used measures of poverty. The death of a poor person, because of poverty, reduces poverty according to these measures. This surely violates our basic intuitions of how poverty measures should behave. It cannot be right in concept that differentially...

The minimum configuration to have a h-index equal to h is h papers each having h citations, hence h2 citations in total. To increase the h-index to h+1 we minimally need (h+1)2 citations, an increment of I1(h)=2h+1. The latter number increases with 2 per unit increase of h. This increment of the...